Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents

Established in 1983, this series of subversive French cultural theory infiltrated American shores and an unsuspecting academe, originally in the form of their now-iconic little black pocket-sized books. This was the series that helped introduce into English such characters as Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Paul Virilio, Michel Foucault, and most famously in the Semiotext(e) lineage, Jean Baudrillard. With more recent introductions of such names as the Italian Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Paolo Virno, and the German Peter Sloterdijk, this series is now, for all intents and purposes, Semiotext(e)’s “Theory” series.

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Footlights

Critical Notebook 1970–1982

by Serge Daney

Translated by Nicholas Elliott

ISBN: 9781635901986

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: December 12, 2023

The early essays of the most influential French film critic of the post-68 period.

The Cinema House and the World

The Cahiers du Cinema Years, 1962–1981

by Serge Daney

Introduction by A. S. Hamrah

Translated by Christine Pichini

ISBN: 9781635901610

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: September 6, 2022

One of the greatest film critics of his generation on topics ranging from the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film.

Letters and Other Texts

by Gilles Deleuze

Edited by David Lapoujade

Translated by Ames Hodges

ISBN: 9781635901276

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: July 14, 2020

A posthumous collection of writings by Deleuze, including letters, youthful essays, and an interview, many previously unpublished.

An Apartment on Uranus

Chronicles of the Crossing

by Paul B. Preciado

Foreword by Virginie Despentes

Translated by Charlotte Mandell

ISBN: 9781635901139

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: January 28, 2020

A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism.

Wars and Capital

by Éric Alliez and Maurizio Lazzarato

Translated by Ames Hodges

ISBN: 9781635900040

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: May 4, 2018

A critique of capital through the lens of war, and a critique of war through the lens of the revolution of 1968.

Aberrant Movements

The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze

by David Lapoujade

Introduction by John Rajchman

ISBN: 9781584351955

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: May 5, 2017

One of the first comprehensive treatments of Deleuzian thought.

The Ordinary Man of Cinema

by Jean Louis Schefer

Translated by Max Cavitch, Noura Wedell and Paul Grant

ISBN: 9781584351856

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: September 16, 2016

The first English translation of a foundational work in cinema studies and the philosophy of film.

Correspondence

The Foundation of the Situationist International (June 1957–August 1960)

by Guy Debord

Introduction by McKenzie Wark

Translated by Stuart Kendall and John McHale

ISBN: 9781584350552

Publisher: Semiotext(e)

Pub Date: December 12, 2008

Letters by writer, filmmaker, and cultural revolutionary Guy Debord conjure a vivid picture of the dynamic first years of the Situationist International movement.